Word: muckerdom
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...innovation which the management of the nine is about to attempt is worthy of attention and commendation. Rampant muckerdom, regardless of the rights of private individuals and corporations, reigns supreme during the pleasant spring all over the lands of Harvard. No portion of the college grounds is free from the obnoxious presence of the small rascals, whom the collegian has dubbed with the sobriquet, muckers. They invade the dignified yard to the very steps of the dormitories, play tag upon the steps of the gymnasium and swarm in crowds over the track and diamond of the athletic fields...
...against some lonely zereba in the dusty Soudan, and some faint conception may be reached of the scene that invariably follows the close of a game on either Jarvis or Holmes. No sooner is the last man put out, or the winning run scored than the cream of Cambridge muckerdom rises, and sweeps over the barriers with the resistless power of a tidal wave, overwhelming players and spectators alike in the mad rush. Such is the state of affairs. There is a remedy. At every game a detail of Cambridge "constabulary" is hired to keep the non-paying spectators from...
...Republicans enjoyed the services of the band in a parade in that classic town. The procession was a great success, notwithstanding the mud and wet weather. The band, it is perhaps needless to say, kept to its usual high standard of merit, and met with the universal approval of muckerdom, which was extremely well represented along the route. The beet part of this parade is generally considered to be the supper, which a member, living in Chelsea, kindly provided for the band. It is rumored that there were several young ladies present at the party, and also that the grime...
...college sadly needs a yard policeman, whose duty it shall be to look after the yard and fields. The college yard is fast becoming a grand playground for Cambridge infant muckerdom. Exciting bicycle races between ten-year-olders on squeaking, rattling "machines," eliciting shrill yells from their mucker audience, are not soothing to the nervous systems of the inhabitants of ground floor rooms. We all know what a nuisance the muckers are when a concert or anything else is going on in the yard, and how annoying they are when we wish to lie around under the trees in warm...
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